[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 112 (Monday, June 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 29366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14580]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket Nos. ER96-1426-000 and ER96-1431-000]


Northern Indiana Public Service Company, NIPSCO Energy Services, 
Inc.; Notice of Issuance of Order

June 5, 1996.
    On March 26, 1996, NIPSCO Energy Services, Inc. (NIPSCO Energy) 
filed an application for authorization to sell power at market-based 
rates, and for certain waivers and authorizations. In particular, 
NIPSCO Energy requested that the Commission grant blanket approval 
under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of securities and 
assumptions of liabilities by NIPSCO Energy. On May 29, 1996, the 
Commission issued an Order Accepting for Filing and Suspending Proposed 
Transmission Tariffs, Conditionally Accepting for Filing Proposed 
Market-Based Rates, and Granting Waivers and Authorizations (Order), in 
the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's May 29, 1996 Order granted the request for blanket 
approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in Ordering 
Paragraphs (F), (G), and (I):
    (F) Within 30 days of the date of this order, any person desiring 
to be heard or to protest the Commission's blanket approval of 
issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities by NIPSCO Energy 
should file a motion to intervene or protest with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, 
in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214.
    (G) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (F) above, NIPSCO Energy is hereby authorized to 
issue securities and to assume obligations or liabilities as guarantor, 
endorser, surety or otherwise in respect of any security of another 
person; provided that such issue or assumption is for some lawful 
object within the corporate purposes of the applicant, compatible with 
the public interest, and reasonably necessary or appropriate for such 
purposes.
    (I) The Commission reserves the right to modify this order to 
require a further showing that neither public nor private interests 
will be adversely affected by continued Commission approval of NIPSCO 
Energy's issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities * * *.
    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is June 28, 1996.
    Copies of the full text of the Order are available from the 
Commission's Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., 
Washington, D.C. 20426.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-14580 Filed 6-7-96; 8:45 am]
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